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they exhibit a keen interest in social, political, and economic problems, but they frequently have vague and incorrect notions about the terms they use rather glibly in their routine school work.
There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.
Using kinship terms in political speeches increased audience agreement with the speaker in one study.
Words primarily used in Austria are Jänner ( January ) rather than Januar, heuer ( this year ) rather than dieses Jahr, Stiege ( stairs ) instead of Treppe, Rauchfang ( chimney ) instead of Schornstein, many administrative, legal and political terms and a whole series of foods and vegetables such as: Erdäpfel ( potatoes ) German Kartoffeln ( but Dutch Aardappel ), Schlagobers ( whipped cream ) German Schlagsahne, Faschiertes ( ground beef ) German Hackfleisch, Fisolen ( green beans ) German Gartenbohne ( but Czech fazole and Italian fagioli ), Karfiol ( cauliflower ) German Blumenkohl ( but Italian cavolfiore ), Kohlsprossen ( Brussels sprouts ) German Rosenkohl, Marillen ( apricots ) German Aprikosen but Slovak marhuľa, Paradeiser ( tomatoes ) German Tomaten, Palatschinken ( pancakes ) German Pfannkuchen ( but Czech palačinky ), Topfen ( a semi-sweet cottage cheese ) German Quark and Kren ( horseradish ) German Meerrettich ( but Czech křen ).
Instead, agrarianism points to a collection of political, philosophical, and literary ideas that together tend to describe farm life in ideal terms.
Their political adventures can be understood in terms of three tyrants who came and went in succession:
It is said that the terms Whig and Tory were first applied to English political parties in consequence of this dispute.
Category: American political terms
Madrid became the centre of political power whilst the colonisation of the Americas reduced the financial importance ( at least in relative terms ) of Mediterranean trade.
The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.
The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.
The constitution limits holders of the presidential office to a maximum of two terms, and prevents the president from being a member of any political party.
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.
Category: Australian political terms
In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous.
" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.
According to Christadelphians, these terms are used in reference to specific political systems or individuals in opposition or conflict.
Nancy's work is an important development of deconstruction because it takes the challenge of deconstruction seriously and attempts to develop an understanding of political terms that is undeconstructable and therefore suitable for a philosophy after Derrida.
The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of " in law " and " in practice ", respectively, when one is describing political or legal situations.
Before the revolution Mubarak tolerated limited political activity by the Brotherhood for his first two terms, but then moved more aggressively to block its influence ( arguably leading to its recent rise in public support ).
Ethnic nationalism bases membership of the nation on descent or heredity — often articulated in terms of common blood or kinship — rather than on political membership.
The terms extermination camp ( Vernichtungslager ) and death camp ( Todeslager ) are interchangeable usages, each referring to camps whose primary function was genocide, not for punishing crime or containing political prisoners, but for the systematic killing of the prisoners delivered there.
ZTT aggressively marketed the single in terms of its topical political angle, promoting it with images of the group wearing American military garb in combat, as well as Soviet-style army uniforms set against an American urban backdrop.
Category: American political terms

political and Left
`` The political and intellectual Left began fighting humor and comedy years ago, because they fear things they do not understand and cannot manage, such as satire and irony, such as humor and comedy.
* or Left Bloc, a Portuguese political party
The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.
At the time of political competition between Bolsheviks and SRs ( January 1918 ), Left SRs attempted to curb the rights of VCheKa and establish through the Narkomiust its control over its work.
European United Left / Nordic Green Left ( GUE / NGL ) is a left-wing political group with seats in the European Parliament since 1995.
The United Left Alliance is an electoral alliance of left-wing political parties and independent politicians in the Republic of Ireland.
Left wing political philosophy generally couples the notion of freedom with that of positive liberty, or the enabling of a group or individual to determine their own life or realize their own potential.
He was a friend and collaborator of the political sociologist Barrington Moore, Jr. and of the political philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, and also a friend of the Columbia University sociology professor C. Wright Mills, one of the founders of the New Left movement.
Left without political office, Davis continued his political activity.
Here he aligned the journal, and thus himself, with the Left and called for writers to express their political commitment ( Aronson 1980: 107 ).
But he agreed with the Left Communists that a separate peace treaty with an imperialist power would be a terrible morale and material blow to the Soviet government, negate all its military and political successes of 1917 and 1918, resurrect the notion that the Bolsheviks secretly allied with the German government, and cause an upsurge of internal resistance.
In 1999, he succeeded in establishing one uniform political party the Democratic Left Alliance which turned out to be very successful in following elections.
The question of nationality and nationalism has been a central feature of political debates on the Left.
Unlike the earlier leftist focus on union activism, the " New Left " instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism.
In Europe, some ' Green-Left ' political parties combine traditional social-democratic values such as a desire for greater economic equality and workers rights with demands for environmental protection, such as the Nordic Green Left.
Brian McLaren of the Emergent Church compares the Left Behind series to The Da Vinci Code, and states, " What the Left Behind novels do, the way they twist scripture toward a certain theological and political end, I think
Trotskyism ideologically predominated the political platform of the Left Opposition, which demanded the restoration of soviet democracy, the expansion of democratic centralism in the Communist Party, national industrialisation, international permanent revolution, and socialist internationalism.
Isserman ( 2001 ) reports that the New Left " " came to use the word ' liberal ' as a political epithet.
By 1970, New Left proponents had adopted the term political correctness.
" The New Left later re-appropriated the term political correctness as satirical self-criticism ; per Debra Shultz: " Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New Left, feminists, and progressives.

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